> How is this not the standard everywhere? Largely because election officials are also not computer security experts (or even serious amateurs). Therefore whe

> How is this not the standard everywhere? Largely because election officials are also not computer security experts (or even serious amateurs). Therefore when "big corp" comes knocking with their newfangled electronic touch screen voting system that promises fast, effortless tallies and "security" (it's, right there, the box is checked on the ad brochure...) the election officials have no background with which to be skeptical of "big corp"'s products re. security. And with the promise of "effortless, instant, tallies" (vs. a long overnight counting paper manually) they see the newfangled thing as an improvement over that which they do understand (the long overnight counting paper).